Clampitt v. Ponder

JOHN E. MILLER, District Judge.

By complaint filed February 10, 1950, the plaintiffs seek a construction of a reservation contained in a warranty deed executed by I. O. Ponder, deceased, and the defendant, S. E. Ponder, her surviving husband. Also, the plaintiffs ask that, if the court is unable to construe the reservation as having expired with the expiration of the oil and gas lease in effect at the time the deed was executed, the court construe the reservation to be what is commonly referred to as a nonparticipating perpetual.royalty interest.

The defendants, on March 7, 1950, filed an…